One cause of the increase in health care cost is the fact that Americans are typically unwilling to accept the explicit rationing of resources that would involve, for example, denying heart transplants to people in their seventies or mammograms to women in their thirties

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


True

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Foundationalists often respond to the anti-foundationalists by arguing that

A) the anti-foundationalists' claim that "there are absolute objective standards of rationality" is false. B) the anti-foundationalists' position amounts to relativism. C) anti-foundationalists support a position of ethnocentric imperialism. D) the anti-foundationalists cannot produce the self-evident sources of rationality they claim exist.

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Radhakrishnan defines choice as

A) an illusion. B) having absolute freedom. C) the assertion of freedom over necessity. D) the assertion of necessity over freedom.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each immediate inference. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint for these problems. No wind farms are pollution generators. Therefore, it is false that all wind farms are pollution generators

A) Invalid, existential fallacy. B) Invalid, illicit contrary. C) Invalid, illicit subalternation. D) Invalid, illicit conversion. E) Valid, no fallacy.

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Abraham Lincoln claimed that he saved the pigs from drowning because

A. otherwise he wouldn't have had peace of mind all day. B. they were his property, and he didn't want to lose the investment. C. he wanted to prove that he was a good and kind person. D. he liked pigs.

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